WMU women's tennis team drops match to UIC

The Western Michigan University women’s tennis team saw its final action before taking a week off for spring break, falling 5-2 to the Illinois-Chicago Flames in Chicago on Sunday. With the loss, the Broncos fall to 9-6 on the season.

The Broncos picked up a pair of singles wins against the Flames, and needed three full sets to decide the results of all but two of the singles matches. Rachel Denny needed just two sets to dispatch her opponent, though; the senior captain downed Haley Craig 6-4, 6-0 in the No. 3 singles match.

Meanwhile, freshman Caroline Aleck continued her current hot streak, pushing back a comeback attempt in the No. 6 singles match to defeat Linda Hricistova 6-4, 6-7 (4), 6-4. Aleck has now won seven straight singles matches, and is 8-1 in singles play during dual match season.

Nini Sujashvili was unable to run her singles match win streak to three matches, losing 2-6, 6-2, 7-6 (5) to Mariya Kovaleva in the No. 1 singles match. Both Maria Nivia and Kathleen Hawkins pushed their matches to three sets, but neither was able to finish them off.